RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Men Of Distinctions: “The incident was one of those things once known as the ‘fortune of war’; except of course that the Libyan operation is not war. . . . The target struck appeared to have the physical signature of a bunker. It wasn’t a frame house with a picket fence. But the reality is that individuals, including the families of high ranking regime figures, probably live in and among bunkers. That is not unusual. . . . And when bunkers get hit the occupants perish without distinction. The truth is that the families of enemy leaders die during a time of war. It is often unavoidable. But therein lies the difficulty of current Libyan operation. There is ostensibly no campaign for regime change; no enemy; there is not even a war on; not even a reference to Congress. But at the same time the armed forces of the NATO countries are being asked to achieve what amounts to war aims without either legal cover of belligerence nor the resources customarily allotted to it.”
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